Tomcat directory structure

[labahost]

What is tomcat directory structure?
After I've installed Tomcat with easyapache 3 and clicked "install servlets" for an account, so now I can run jsp pages, but how can I install servlets, what is the directory structure?
Is it possible to deploy war files with tomcat? (I was able to do it with modresin)

[mtindor]

What is tomcat directory structure?
After I've installed Tomcat with easyapache 3 and clicked "install servlets" for an account, so now I can run jsp pages, but how can I install servlets, what is the directory structure?
Is it possible to deploy war files with tomcat? (I was able to do it with modresin)

If you have installed Tomcat via WHM, then under WHM / Account Functions you'll find the option to 'Install Servlets'

If you click on 'Install Servlets', and then select a domain and click Install, it will create the following folder structure in the public_html directory of that account:

/WEB-INF
/WEB-INF/classes
/WEB-INF/lib

It will also install a jsptest.jsp file in public_html

In your httpd.conf it will add the following under the VirtualHost directive for that domain:
<IfModule mod_jk.c>
JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
JkMount /servlet/* ajp13
JkMount /servlets/* ajp13
</IfModule>

On one site where a customer installed a Java servlet they installed it in a subdirectory called /billing. They then created /billing/WEB-INF , /billing/WEB-INF/lib , /billing/WEB-INF/classes and /billing/WEB-INF/lib. Their .jar files are in /billing/WEB-INF/lib. Their index.jsp file is in /billing/index.jsp.

I'm not a Java person, so I don't know how things are supposed to go. But it looks like you can put your .jsp files in any directory and just make sure you have a WEB-INF under that directory containing all of your java classes, jar files, etc. in the appropriate directories.


Mike

[labahost]

If you have installed Tomcat via WHM, then under WHM / Account Functions you'll find the option to 'Install Servlets'

In your httpd.conf it will add the following under the VirtualHost directive for that domain:
<IfModule mod_jk.c>
JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
JkMount /servlet/* ajp13
JkMount /servlets/* ajp13
</IfModule>

Mike

Thank you very much Mike.
Does anybody know if I'll modify that fragment in http.conf to add something like this:
JkMount /*.* ajp13 will modification persist after CPanel update? Or is there another way to launch servlets from root, like jsps? (may be by somehow modifying local web.xml ?)

[labahost]

I think that Mike response was regarding Tomcat added by previous version of CPanel as plugin. (what I mean: there is no ajp13 substring in httpd.conf)
Latest version of CPanel with Easyapache 3 looks like have a completely different way of configuring tomcat with apache. Can anybody post some help on it?

[labahost]

Sorry for replying to me again, but it seems that I found a solution:
You should edit the file in
/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/$version_of_apache/$username/$domainname/

where
$version_of_apache is 1 for 1.3 and 2 for apache 2.0 and 2.2

the file name is cp_jkmount.conf

then you should restart httpd

[asiams]

I think that Mike response was regarding Tomcat added by previous version of CPanel as plugin. (what I mean: there is no ajp13 substring in httpd.conf)
Latest version of CPanel with Easyapache 3 looks like have a completely different way of configuring tomcat with apache. Can anybody post some help on it?

You are right.

Here is the newly added lines when Install Servlet is done to a domain:

Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/*.conf"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/*.owner-root"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/*.conf"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/*.owner-root"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/*.conf"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/*.owner-root"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/aljlmnbe/*.conf"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/aljlmnbe/seishojuku.jp/*.conf"

It just adds bunch of Include statements in httpd.conf.

hope this helps.

asiams

[FeeL]

Now I understood how apache 2.x works with tomcat.
I hope that this gets stable from now on

Yet, my domains are not working properly with the www.domain/servlets, showing this

HTTP Status 404 - /servlets/

type Status report

message /servlets/

description The requested resource (/servlets/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.25

What else can be checked?

Thanks!